Vivien Lévy-Garboua, who was appointed head of compliance for BNP Paribas in January 2005, has opted to refrain from serving as chairman of any board. Consequently, at the close of Klépierre’s annual shareholders’ meeting on April 7, 2005, Mr. Lévy-Garboua…

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), one of the largest listed holding companies in Europe and one of Belgium’s top ten companies (with a market capitalisation of EUR 9.7bn), has successfully issued a EUR 435m exchangeable bond into treasury shares, maturing on…

This is the objective reached by Arval, an international role model in Operational Leasing and Corporate Fleet Management. For its 15th anniversary, the Group recorded two-digit growth in its leased fleet in 2004. The results speak for themselves. Arval is…

At its March 29, 2005 meeting, the Klépierre Supervisory Board approved the consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with IFRS, which will serve as the basis for preparing financial statements as of January 1, 2005. The adoption of these standards…

BNP Paribas has been awarded Bank of the year by Global Water Intelligence which is the leading source of market information for the international water industry. BNP Paribas has been nominated bank of the year by an electoral college including…

With a 14% increase in new business and a 14.5% rise in earnings* (+ 18 % on a like-for-like basis), 2004 saw Cetelem combining development with profitability. As a result, this was Cetelem’s most successful year since BNP Paribas was…

February 19th 2005. Between reality and magic, the laws of gravity and illusions, this company explores, in a constantly moving space, the theatrical aspects of acrobatics and the art of juggling. Inventive, technically perfect, humorous and poetical, these young artists,…

Cortal Consors Belgium, a company of BNP Paribas, is in the process of taking over part of the client base that formerly belonged to the stockbroking company Mega Invest Management SA. It concerns about 1 600 customers and managed assets…

In 2004 Cortal Consors had operating income of EUR 28.3 million, up by 124% from 2003. The acquisition of new customers in Europe continued on a large scale: The company picked up 75,000 new customers during the year, representing an…

BNP Paribas Ranks n°17 for Mergers and Acquisitions (2004) by Thomson Financial in Benelux with an amount of 1737.7 M US Dollars for 8 deals.The bank who’s ranked number one is Goldman Sachs & Co.